Word: antonito
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mourners gathered in the yellow old Denver and Rio Grande Western depot to watch the train pull out. It was the last run of the "Chili Line" and the end of the D.&R.G.W.'s famous track-the narrow-gauge line from Santa Fe, 125 miles to Antonito, Colo...
...part of a famous system. And the branch which twisted up the sides of the Rio Grande canyon, skirted precipices 1,000 feet above the river, labored across the sagebrush acres of the sun-drenched plateau, climbed 9,000 feet in the air, and finally shot down into whitewashed Antonito, lived on to nurture some fabulous tales: of how they had to hinge the engine's boiler in the middle to get it around the curves; of how the conductor in the caboose bummed chewing tobacco from the engineer in his cab as the little train coiled back...
...Antonito, Conductor Henry Willis, who had spent almost a quarter of a century on the run, climbed carefully down. No sentimentalist, Conductor Willis exclaimed, " I'm glad to get off that danged rattletrap...
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